The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
70 quotes about restraint follow in order of popularity. Be sure to bookmark and share your favorites!
No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint.
Lord Chesterfield
In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.
Jane Austen
It's a self-restraint thing. People need to not use them constantly, and they'll be fine.
Stacey Doyon
There's no fiscal restraint right now. Nobody is even thinking about it.
Robert Bixby
It's a cleansing process. I never feel better than I do during Ramadan because I'm focused. It teaches me self-restraint and discipline.
Saleem Rasheed
Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities -patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.
Billy Casper
It's comforting to see that state governments are showing some common sense and fiscal restraint. The reduced borrowing runs counter to what the federal government is doing.
Dominic Calabro
That will require restraint and responsibility on all sides of this equation.
Karen Brooks
The process is working, but we still have to judiciously select our new markets and the ones where we expand. It's a matter of timing and restraint to let the major competition get out of the marketplace.
Jack Foley
Physical restraint is a small part of a behavior program. Just because a kid is on a behavior program doesn't mean they have physical restraint.
Jill Greene
I think he's just wrong. Fortunately, our police showed, I think, very good restraint and discipline.
Paul Schell
We know that traffic-related fatalities and injuries increase dramatically at the age of 8. We're confident it is possible to put an end to this tragedy by educating older children and their parents about proper vehicle positioning and restraint use.
Joseph O'donnell
It's pretty obvious that we showed fiscal restraint here in Nevada when we had a $300 million bipartisan tax rebate.
Richard Perkins
There's an acute public awareness that while there's been a lot of wage restraint, profits have grown.
Klaus Baader
I would encourage those who are affected by this to go to the Supreme Court and question this absolute prohibition, in effect, of 'no permit-no rally' because this goes beyond reasonable restraint for common good.
Franklin Drilon
Going forward, it is expected that productivity improvements and restraint in upward administered price adjustments will contribute to lower and stable inflation, and a competitive real exchange rate.
Baledzi Gaolathe
The next time somebody gets a lecture from a priest on the necessity of sexual restraint, their first reaction might be one of cynicism.
William Donohue
Restraint is very important when one graduates.
Fran Katzanek
Courtney's strongest move is probably the front kick. She could knock a six-foot person down with one with no problem. But because of the restraint they're taught, she'd never use the move unless it was absolutely necessary.
Rebecca Mckinney
Certainly the violence in Iraq has been much lower than it might have been, because there's been a fair deal of restraint among Shiite leaders. And that might end now - they may feel the need to really go after the Sunni Arabs as a diversion.
David Mack
His belief in the Founding Fathers' vision of judicial restraint, federalism, and deference to the legislative and executive branches ... has enjoyed a tremendous renaissance in his time. He is truly the godfather of the constitutionalist movement in American law.
C. Boyden Gray
To have an antitrust violation, you have to have a contract or conspiracy in restraint of trade.
Robert Mccormick
We will continue to operate with maximum restraint. We are a responsible member of the international community and we shall continue to be so.
Jaswant Singh
The president's insistence on spending restraint resulted in both the highway and energy bills coming in far less than originally proposed by Congress.
Scott Milburn
There was a message of restraint, of great discipline, of great pre-planning, to eliminate as much as possible the random acts, the guys feeling isolated, the guys feeling threatened. This was very different from what happened in a lot of other cities.
Jay Kriegel
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
Simone de Beauvoir
It's a prior restraint; it's state censorship.
Jon Fleischaker
This report confirms the dramatic improvement in the 2005 deficit picture that the administration reported last month, ... The president is committed to the combination of strong economic growth and spending restraint that will keep us on track to cut the deficit in half by 2009.
Scott Milburn
I would like to urge both parties to show maximum restraint, to desist from acts of violence, the use of force and cease all offensive operations.
Pieter Feith
To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!
Louis Ferdinand Celine
Unions are asking for more, but we are still a long way from excessive demands. The wage restraint continues.
Dirk Schumacher
I never think of the measures necessary for the peace and good order of the colonies without pain. There must be an abridgment of what are called English liberties. I relieve myself by considering that in a remove from a state of nature to the most perfect state of government, there must be a great restraint of natural liberty.
Thomas Hutchinson
We call for restraint in passing a law that would fast track the creation of a national health information system.
Jane Orient
This can be attributed to the slowdown and restraint ahead of the euro.
Dominique Barbet
The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.
Rufus Choate
I know Reggie too well. If we don't put a little restraint on him, he'll kill himself to do it. This game is not worth that. I think he tricked himself a little bit. He thought he had a lot more energy than he really did.
Patrick Nix
We are shocked by the way the government responded to this, by the use of excessive force, we are calling for restraint on all sides.
Beyene Petros
It's been our experience in Texas and Virginia that competition results in lower prices. It's certainly a restraint on increases.
John Hendricks
[China deplored the attack on Iraqi territory.] We believe Iraq's territory should be respected, ... We hope all sides show an attitude of restraint.
Shen Guofang
Mild restraint will go a long way with lace. No one has done a floor-length lace evening gown since the late '70s.
Brian Primeaux
We hope the relevant parties can exercise restraint and not take measures that will escalate the situation.
Cui Tiankai
Roberts is much more inclined toward a posture of judicial restraint than she [O'Connor] was--judicial restraint being not having courts being the first place people look to solve social problems. They should look to the legislatures.
Thomas Merrill
This is not a policy of indifference. This is a policy of additional restraint. Contrary to what they say, they think the inflation threat is graver than the threat to growth.
David Resler
I think the president will make the right decision, ... I don't think you should have any kind of a balancing act, or some kind of a litmus test. I think it should be purists who believe in judicial restraint, and who believe that writing the laws is the job of the legislative branch and not the judicial branch.
Michael Oxley
By the time she committed that intentional act of going in the hallway with two dogs, or if you believe her on anything, one dog with no muzzle, and no restraint, with this dog, knowing what it could do, the crime was complete.
Jim Hammer
This agreement resolves our First Amendment concerns regarding prior restraint of the right to gather and publish information. We stand ready to pursue other legal remedies if for some reason this agreement is not signed by the judge.
George Cox
If you compress payroll, lessen payroll disparity, have a little restraint at the top, give more at the bottom.
Rob Manfred
We can start to purchase land from the owners that are affected. Now that we don't have a money restraint or funding restraint we can go as fast as we physically can.
Theresa Casav
Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.
Cedric Hardwicke
This is a case in which our supposed litigation program to encourage judicial restraint did not get off the ground, and should have.
Carolyn Kuhl
Restraint can be tough. I've made a point to learn how to make a slow song have as much impact as a fast song. That's a challenge I've given myself, because it's easy to just get out there and blast through a bunch of things and feel as though you're exciting the audience. If you can do that with a slow song, then you really have some variety and some range.
John Doe
There's every indication that she's very similar to Judge Roberts – judicial restraint, limited role of the court, basically a judicial conservative.
Greg Mueller
The only problem with drawing Nixon is restraint. Your tendency is to let your feelings come out. He's such a loathsome son of a bitch, and he looks so loathsome.
William H. Mauldin
Quantitatively, outsourcing abroad simply cannot account for much of the recent weakness in the U.S. labor market and does not appear likely to be an important restraint to further recovery in employment.
Ben S. Bernanke
All indications are there was no malfunction with the ride. The restraint in the seat the boy was in was still down and locked when the ride came to a stop.
Lynn Wright
The important thing is that this crisis be defused in a manner that strengthens Thailand's democratic institutions rather than undermines them, and that will require restraint and responsibility on all sides of this equation.
Karen Brooks
He did it by choosing carefully the doctrine of judicial restraint. You see it in the cases the court hears, and showing the way with his brand of leadership.
David Yalof
The justices clearly exercised admirable judicial restraint. They recognize that the Legislature has the proper authority to make the decisions regarding marriage. I wouldn't want to predict what the Court of Appeals would do.
Dennis Poust
The chief justice for 33 years has been the personification of the value of judicial restraint, and that is something that the president is equally committed to. I'm certain the president will abide by those beliefs as he looks for a nominee to replace him.
Chuck Cooper
We are calling for restraint and calm, we don't think that the problems will be solved by throwing rocks.
Beyene Petros
Continued capacity restraint by the industry is resulting in a more stable price environment.
Martin Broughton
I don't want to hear again from the attorney general or anyone on this floor that this government has shown it can be trusted to use the power we give it with restraint and care.
Russ Feingold
What is being done here on the basis of what we think is a very over-broad prior restraint is to forbid, in a way that no appellate court has ever upheld before, a distribution of intellectual information, intellectual knowledge, owned by the person who is distributing it.
David Boies
It's great, ... are a clear conspiracy and restraint of trade. This is long-overdue law enforcement.
Peter Sealey
There will have to be much more significant restraint on spending growth than we've seen over the last four or five years.
Tim O'neill
It is calm now but this is superficial and deceptive. There is a lot of uncertainty ... There is a need for restraint from all, including the government and us in the opposition.
Beyene Petros
While our military forces have displayed extraordinary precision and restraint in deploying arms -- and apparently in securing the Oil Ministry and oil fields -- they have been nothing short of impotent in failing to attend to the protection of (Iraq's) cultural heritage.
Martin Sullivan
Although we as Muslims hold freedom of speech as one of the unalienable rights of human beings, we believe that press has the utmost responsibility to exercise restraint when it comes to the basic beliefs of human beings.
Ehsan Ahmed
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